New York City, NY: Twelve Press, Date: 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Twelve Press, 2012. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 110 pages. The author's last book, published posthumously. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out within the first few weeks of publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Christopher Hitchens' "Mortality". "End-of-life" essays and a Coda of Last Notes that appear in published form for the very first time, the best book of its kind since Susan Sontag's "Illness As Metaphor" (1978) . All seven pieces first appeared in gripping monthly installments in Vanity Fair Magazine. They show the terminally ill Hitchens to be unsentimentally witty, insightful, and funny until the grim end. The single most reflective and poignant piece is on the idea of voice: Hitchens permanently lost his speaking voice during aggressive treatment, prompting him to write what is surely one of the most original meditations on the (deadly) literary cliche, "the writer's voice", and what it means to a famously eloquent public intellectual/writer like him to lose the ability to speak. Another brilliantly sustained piece on the aphorism by Nietzsche, "Whatever doesn't kill ...

First Edition/First Printing, September 2012 as stated on the copyright page. An excemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unkown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. A fine dustjacket over a fine book. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Twelve. Grand Central Publishing ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

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Twelve, Date: 2012. New cloth bound in dust jacket.. 104 pages. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his memoir Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in Vanity Fair, he was suddenly deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Throughout his 18-month ordeal with esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with his eyes open. This clear-eyed, intellectually defiant, ironically witty account is pure Hitchens, as he describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. 2012. Twelve ISBN 1455502758 9781455502752 [US]

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ISBN10: 1455502758, ISBN13: 9781455502752, [publisher: Twelve] Hardcover First Edition
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